The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-28
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

The Decline to day will receive from the |
Brooks locomotive works two heavy passenger |
engines to be used in hauling their solid trains.
There were transferred over the Belt road,
last week, 1l7S5 cars, against S552 the CORE
spending week, 1886. Increase this year 1893 |
years
The Wabash management, west of the river,
report an increase the third week in March OF |
earnings of nearly $25, 600 over the correspond |
ing week, 1886.
Last week was the banner week OF several |
years in the freight traffic of the Decline Dur
Ing the week there were forwarded from Bright |
wood 695 loaded cars
The Indiana, Bloomington g. Western road
will be sold to-day at the United States Court
room at P NJ. Without doubt it VIII De pur-
chased by the first-mortgage bondnolders.
Night mail service is to be established on the
L., N. A. & c. railway between Louisville. New
Albany and Chicago, to include Sunday service
Three fine postal cars are being constructed Tor
the line.
Since Jan. l sixty-eieht miles of new steel
rails have been placed in the track of the l., b.
81 W. main line. Thirty miles was laid on
the Peoria division, and thirty the Sandusky
division.
IT, G. Moore, formerly of the Indianapolis pool,
late joint agent OF Eastern lines out of Chicago,
wants to be secretary of the Interstate Commits
sion. He is said to have Commissioner Fink for
. hacker.
The extension of the Lake Erie g. Western
road from Bloomington to Peoria, H., is to be
pushed as fast as practicable. The MANAGEMENT
hope to have trains running into Peoria by the
LIST of September.
Connely Jenkins has been appointed CONNER
cial agent of the Erie fast-freieht lines at Phil
adelphia. vice j. H. Steiner, who resigned to
take the secretaryship of the trottng association
organized recently at Detroit.
Belt road engines handled last week. 666 car
loads Of lives stock against sol the correspond
ing week 1886. From this on, for weeks
to come, livestock traffic will increase. Seldom
is it lighter than it has been for the past ten
weeks.
The United States Express Company has
made arrangements with the Baltimore & Ohio
Express Company by which their through bust
ness between Indianapolis and Cincinnati is car
red by the B. g. 0. express over the c.. Il. 81
D. lines.
time preparing their tariffs so to not interfere
with the provisions Of the interstate law, and
still admit of the roads earning enough from the
reduced locasr to not seriously impair their
earnings.
1t is understood that the Pacific Express Com
pany will cease do business out of Indianap-
oils within a few days, and that the United
States Express Company. which operates over
the Lake Erie &c Western, will also operate over
tho Indianapolis Peru 81 Chicago road
On April the Erie fast-freieht lines COM
mence carrying their business entirely, between
Cincinnati and Dayton. over the Decline, and
all freights will be received and delivered from
the Bee-line city freight depot after that date.
instead of the c., Fl. & u. depot, at Cincinnati.
The Journal has information to the effect that
the Ives. Staynor & Co. syndicate have their eye
on some of the north and south lines in Illinois
as we'll "a in Indiana, and that the Peoria, De-
.catur & Evansville is one OF them, and that there
is good deal Of truth in the report that the
Mackey syndicate has lost its hold on the prop
erty.
The contract for building the new piece of road
by which the trains of the c., l., St L. & c.
road will run around the mill instead of through
the tunnel on the eastern division. was award ed
to Frost Sterne & Co.. of Columbus 0. The
estimated cost of the Improvement ia $l75, 900,
or in that neichborhood. There is large
amount of excavation work to be done.
Boston capitalists continue to put money free
ly into the Louisville, Evansville & ST. Louis
(airline.) The contract to finish fifty miles of
partly graded road. from West Point and
Stepheusonport, has been let. and it is stated
that other contracts extending the line will soon
be let. When completed, Henderson, KY, will
be but 1856 miles distant from Louisville
The old project of building road from Goshen
to Fort awe, Ind, has been revived 1t would
be nearly a bee line and would take in the towns
of Ligonier, Albion, Churubusco and then Fort
Wayne AT Goshen it would connect with the
Cincinnati, Wabash e. Michigan. thus extending
the line to the lakes. intersect the Grand Trunk
& Michigan Central, connecting US with South
Bend and Is1kharr independent of the Lake
Shore.
Some Of the general passenger agents have
taken the position that after the 4th Of Mex
month they will be obliged to pay the fare fol
their own wives should they travel. But it i.
noticeable that but few presidents and genera
managers take this extreme view of the law
The act certainly does not prohibit the granting
of complimentary passes within a State. Some
OF the roads, nevertheless give it the narrower
construction.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company has com
pleted its road to the heart Of the anthracit,
coal fields. and will on the 18th of next month
put on trains between Wilkesbarre and Their
main line. 1t is said to be the purpose of tn,
company to build on to Scranton. Pa. 1t is be
iieved that the completion of Pennsylvania lin,
into the heart of the anthracite coal regions
means reduction in freight rates and the fur
nishing of coal to Western cities at lower prices
At present there are about 10000 engineer
employed OF all the railroads of the country ant
about that number of firemen They run owe
$4,000 miles of railroads in the country. Be
tween 1000 and $4,000 of the engineers ar
members of the brotherhood, and nearly tina
number of fremen are members of the Firemen'
Brotherhood. There are now 800 subdivision
or assemblies of engineers and $40 subdivision
of the firemen. and they increasing at tn
rate OF two month.
The new Sunday law in Connecticut is nut
for the railroad companies Whileit forblds TIL
running OF excursion trains, ar at which tn
roads care little, it compels every person VIII
from necessity or otherwise travels on that da
TO pay full fare. as the use or communication an
mileage tickets is prohibited. The bill thus dis
eliminates in favor of the railroad companies
The charging of full fare will increase their re
ceipts from Sunday passenger traffic, and i
rests with them and the railroad commissioner
to determine how many necessity or mercy
trains shall be run
The Ives. Staynor & Co. syndicate which is s
freely gathering in and consolidating Indiana,
railways. now control nearly 1000 miles of roat
in this State having under their control tn
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Indianapolis the Cincin
natl, Wabash & Michigan. the INDIANAPOLIS
Peru 81 Chicago. the Lake Erie e. Western an
the Louisville New ALBANY & Chicaeo III
five roads are all good property and the busines
of each is increasing from year to year, unIes
Ii ha that OF the p e q which h.. -